"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forego their use."

Galileo

"I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught."


~ Winston Churchill

"If success is not on your own terms - if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your own heart - it is no success at all."

-- Anna Quindlen

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers." 
~ Seneca

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"It's not shameful not to know, but it's shameful not to ask."

~Azerbaijani Proverb

"With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come."
-- Shakespeare  

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
 - Dalal Lama    

"The most common way people give up their power is thinking they don't have any."
- Alice Walker      

"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society."
 - Krishnamurti 

"Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
- Buddha

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire

"Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix    

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
- Abbie Hoffman      

"The Devil can site scripture for his own purposes."
~William Shakespeare

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get the people to stop reading."

~ Ray Bradbury